Monday, December 4, 2023 | Back issues
Courthouse News Service Courthouse News Service

Revenge porn laws

HOUSTON — An appeals court in Texas found a lower court improperly granted pretrial habeas corpus relief to a woman charged with unlawful disclosure of intimate visual material. The court ruled against the woman’s argument that the state’s 2017 version of its “revenge porn” statute was unconstitutional, finding it did not violate the First Amendment as it was “narrowly tailored” to protect sexual privacy.

Read the opinion here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Civil Rights, Criminal, Government, Media

Subscribe to Closing Arguments

Sign up for new weekly newsletter Closing Arguments to get the latest about ongoing trials, major litigation and hot cases and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the world.

Loading...